Loved it. Minimal tools maximum skill.

nice to see how its done my uncle was a cooper for perrys brewery here in ireland he often told me about the process of making barrels and repairing then.

Great video, thank you for sharing. You can really appreciate the skill and strength these gentlemen had.

the skillful movements of craftsmen like that always blows my mind. such a pleasure to watch a pros at work.

No soul destroying assembly work there. Artisans at work.

I enjoyed watching this old clip of How barrels were made at the Guinness distillery. Well done!

A time when craftsmen took as much care and pride in their tools as well as the items they made.

Wearing dress coats, ties, vests- real gentlemen. What a different era that was.

Amazing craftsmanship!

Extraordinary how its all done by eye.

What an awesome film. Absolute master craftsmen

Tavy@ brilliant to watch. Just a pure joy to watch a trade that took so much skill, hard labour, geometry just by using there eye, and an art, and they took great pride in the finished article to perfection. And great speed of thought! A worked in a cooperage as a labourer and that was really hard and dirty as well. Imagine todays 16 to 22 year old mobile phone and computer mad doing that work lol or trying to do it or learn it. They would say "sorry but a need to take this call" every 5 minutes! But where a worked they would just get rid of them. They knew who wanted to work and who could work. A thinck in todays britain theres to many firms, companys, jobs, with no respect for there staff. Plus to tight to pay out good money to keep there staff. When a heard people saying "we get timend when we go to the toillet and if were 20 seconds late we can lose wer job, we get treated as rubbish" a thought no thats going to far, to far and then hard working mums and dads get sanctiond? Its a mess!!! And needs fixed by experts. Not just mp's that dont know how or what a town or city centre looks like. Then people cant look for work sanctiond so sanctiond again. There killing people!!!!

I would love to have some of those tools I bet they are superb.

Great skill and strength in the lads , not often found now . Great video 👍🇬🇧

Fantastic skills , awesome 👏

Thanks for sharing. I come from a family of portuguese coopers and that brought found memories.

Thanks watching from New Zealand.

how skillful those hardworking men were 💪👍

When coopering really was hard work!

Awesome craft for sure.

Tavy@ REAL MEN!!!!! Thats what you call hard work with skill!!!!

WOW,thats some craftsman,,

And now a pint in a pub is a luxury and not for the poor man!

I believe we need to go back to manual labor for production of products. Although the invent of computers and AI, which negate the need for humans, may seem a good thing, it saps the human spirit, as human beings, and all other living things, need to be engaged to survive.

Did you see that one guy checking his cell phone...yeah, me neither.

Wow what a labor intensive process…bet the coopers had shoulder wrist and back issues…

Honestly it's still the same in Mexico for the most part. Great video and thank you.

What a beautiful video on a soon to be lost art!

I'm drinking Guinness. And a video on Guinness barrels is in my feed. How does KZfaq do it!?

Skill, strength and hard work - puts us today to shame.

Aside from the table saw, no power tools.

Que expertos sin usar ninguna herramienta eléctrica 😎👍👏

I cannot hear a word the man is saying for the music

I can't believe he is wearing a nice cardigan to do that.

witch one is toby hess in the picture?

you shuld've clean your nose

Now check out this great Irish tune, "Dublin in the Rare Auld Time": kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8h-o5Z2krnZgas.html Listen to the second verse - the narrator, Sean Dempsey, was a cooper who was "lost out to redundancy" (as in laid off, job went away). Hundreds of coopers lost their jobs when Guinness went to metal barrels beginning in 1946. The coopers hung on in increasingly smaller numbers throughout the '50s, but by the early '60s just a handful were left, paid to convert mountains of old wooden barrels into patio and rumpus room furniture. Progress, sure, but still the sad loss of a centuries-old artisanal tradition...

Absolutely fantastic craftsmanship good man dick 👏

I would like to find the original video that doesn’t have the constant sniffing sound in the background. 🤧

7:07 - What is inserted?

How did Barrels in Ireland in old times do what?

Now I can understand why alcoholism is so high in our Cooper family. : (

By trade I was a cooper Lost out to redundancy...

Sorry about my noose guys =\

Steam at 130 psi? Not in that simple cone shaped cover. I think you mean that the temperature of the steam is 130 C

tip: do NOT attempt to arm wrestle the guy at 1:30 after a few guiness!

was this recorded with a potato?

They dressed up to go to work

Tavy@ could you imagine todays computer laptop freaks in a shirt and tie doing this kind of work lol. They sit down all day and still dont want to do anything. Or they just fob ye off. At least i worked in a cooperage and it was hard sweaty and really dirty. The dirt even got inside my pockets and it was jeans a wore? Its a dieying trade becouse no one wants to do it despite the great money. Now they just want to sit next to a phone eating sweets. Wtf is happening!!!!!

Men are fucking awesome. We in the west have dropped the ball big time...

So if your new barrel has sawdust and wood chips inside, the dumbass drilled the holes AFTER assembling the entire barrel. It's fun to clean this out of a barrel, let me tell ya.

Please don't film anything else without blowing your nose. This was torture.

Far too much labor for far too little gain. All that back-breaking effort for what? So John Barleycorn can wreck more lives?

People in this day and age ,have no meaning of what real hard labor work is all about. we live in the most lazy generation ever.

Hour after hour, day after day, week after week, month after month of monotonous, mind numbing routine.

this woodworking skill totally worth million barrels。 Maple Red Wine 。 CenturyGinseng。

Amazing craftsmanship!